Judge Scalia bans media

[David Farber <farber () tmail com>]

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From: Meeks, Brock (MSNBCi) <Brock.Meeks () MSNBC COM>
To: 'dave () farber net' <dave () farber net>
Subject: Judge Scalia bans media
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 08:22:13 -0800

Supreme Court Judge Antonin Scalia is slated to accept a free speech 
award
today in Cleveland.  Among the conditions Scalia put on his appearing 
to
accept the award: a wholesale ban on any media presence.


CLEVELAND (AP) - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia banned broadcast 
media
from an appearance Wednesday where he will receive an award for 
supporting
free speech.
The City Club usually tapes speakers for later broadcast on public
television, but Scalia insisted on banning television and radio 
coverage,
the club said. Scalia is being given the organization's Citadel of 
Free
Speech Award.
"I might wish it were otherwise, but that was one of the criteria that 
he
had for acceptance," said James Foster, the club's executive director.
The ban on broadcast media "begs disbelief and seems to be in conflict 
with
the award itself," C-SPAN vice president and executive producer Terry 
Murphy
wrote in a letter last week to the City Club. "How free is speech if 
there
are limits to its distribution?"
The City Club selected Scalia because he has "consistently, across the
board, had opinions or led the charge in support of free speech," 
Foster
said.

[snip]
-- Dave

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